K-12 Teacher Resources
Transform Your Financial Literacy Classroom with Standards-Aligned, Free Online Courses
Believe financial literacy is vital, but struggle to teach it? You are not alone: 92% of educators agree it is essential, yet only 31% feel fully confident teaching it.
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Overwhelmed by Curriculum Demands?
Access plug-and-play, standards-aligned lessons and quizzes designed specifically for middle and high school students
Lack Confidence in Financial Topics?
Our comprehensive courses build your personal financial literacy first, following the proven Jump$tart guidelines that dramatically improves student outcomes
Struggling with Student Engagement?
Bite-sized 2-3 minute video lessons with animated characters designed for short attention spans – proven to dramatically improve student knowledge gains
Need Professional Development?
Complete self-paced courses that fit your schedule and provide the deep content knowledge that transforms teaching effectiveness
What You Get
Built to Give You Back Your Prep Time
Everything is ready to use the moment you sign up, so you spend your hours teaching rather than planning.
Save Valuable Time
Focus on teaching and supporting your students instead of planning: ready-to-use courses, plus resources like slides, infographics, project ideas, and more
Track Student Progress
Monitor class and individual progress and completion rates, identify opportunities for providing targeted support
Facilitate Classroom Discussions
Spark conversations about real-life money topics to help students connect lessons to everyday decisions
Meet State Mandates
The courses seamlessly fit financial literacy classes – no curriculum development stress!
✨ Brand New ✨
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Engage your students and simplify your prep with AI-powered tools built exclusively for financial literacy educators. Save hours of planning while keeping your classroom engaging, personalized, and standards-aligned.
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Bring Award-Winning Financial Education to Your Classroom – 100% Free
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Honors & Highlights
Key Recognition and Appearances
From state legislatures to international award stages, Easy Peasy Finance has been recognized for making money make sense.
Joint Legislative Resolution: NJ Senate & General Assembly (2026)
Plutus Awards: Hall of Fame Honor and Best Financial Literacy Content for Children (2026, 2022, 2021)
Kiplinger: “A Youthful Take on Personal Finance” – Paying It Forward (2024)
Listed in the Jump$tart Clearinghouse of vetted financial education resources.
Free Courses
Courses Aligned with K-12 National Standards
Every course maps to a Jump$tart pillar, so slotting them into your existing scope and sequence takes minutes.
Basics of Money
This beginner course introduces you to the world of money everyone should be familiar with, like earning, saving, investing, banks, credit cards, ATMs, and more.
Basics of Finance
This introductory course helps you take your first steps in the world of finance by covering topics like interest rate, inflation, insurance, stock market, income tax, and more.
Basics of Income Tax
This introductory course on income tax covers what are the different types of income, why income tax is important and what you need to know about filing your tax return.
Methods of Money Payment
This intermediate course deep dives into the different payment methods including checks, credit cards, ACH and wire transfers, direct deposit, and more.
Basics of Banking
This introductory course gets you started in the world of banking by covering key topics like Banks and Credit Unions, Checking and Savings accounts, checks, debit cards, ATM and more.
Basics of Retirement Planning
This beginner course introduces you to planning for retirement – a very important but often neglected part of personal finance. It covers saving for retirement, different retirement accounts, including special emphasis on 401(k).
Basics of Investing
This introductory course covers key concepts related to investing like risk-return, asset classes, portfolio, diversification, liquidity and the magical power of compounding.
Investing in the Stock Market
This intermediate course focuses on investing in the stock market, covering different investment avenues like Stocks, ETFs and Mutual Funds to help you navigate the world of equity investment.
Investment Strategies
This advanced course dives deep into investing strategies, including: Asset allocation, portfolio rebalancing, dollar costs averaging, to help you make the most of your investments.
Investing in Individual Stocks
This course offers advanced knowledge required for individual stock investments, including: IPOs, P/E Ratios, EPS, Technical & Fundamental analysis, and more.
Basics of Borrowing
This beginner course covers important concepts of credit and debt by introducing you to the world of borrowing including loan, student loan, mortgage and more.
Basics of Credit Cards
This course introduces you to credit and debit cards focusing on their distinguishing features to help you become a savvy consumer.
Borrowing for Your Home
This intermediate course dives deep into borrowing related to your home covering topics like FHA Mortgage, Home Equity Loan, HELOC, Foreclosure and more.
Credit Score and Credit Report
This intermediate course focuses on credit scores and credit reports, their importance and how they differ from each other.
Basics of Insurance
This beginner course helps you get started in the world of insurance, by introducing you to Life insurance, Health insurance and Auto insurance.
Financial Risk Management
This intermediate course aims to help you understand and manage your financial risk by covering concepts like emergency fund, identity theft, bankruptcy and will.
Getting Started
Simple, Free Classroom Implementation
Three steps from signing up to watching your students’ progress roll in.
1
We Create Your Group
Easy Peasy Finance creates a group (like a dedicated classroom) for you, with you as the group leader. The courses are pre-assigned to your group.
2
Enroll Your Students
On your group management dashboard, use a simple web form to invite students. They receive an email with login information and are auto-enrolled in the courses.
3
Start the Course(s)
Your students begin the course(s), and you monitor their progress from the group management dashboard.
Stay in the Loop
Teacher Monitoring Tools
Four reports give you everything from a whole-class overview to each student’s module-by-module journey.
Group Management Report
The Group Management report functions like a Teacher Dashboard, giving you a clear and organized overview of everything happening within your group.
It shows you which course or courses are assigned to the group, and lists the names and email addresses of all the students who are enrolled.
In addition, it provides valuable insight into each student’s overall status in the course(s) – whether they’ve completed, started, or not yet started the material.
This makes it easy to track engagement, identify who might need extra support, and manage your group efficiently from one central place.
Group Course Report
The Course Report offers a detailed snapshot of a specific course, giving you clear insights into how students are engaging with the content.
It includes a list of all the students enrolled in that particular course, along with their names and email addresses for easy identification and communication.
More importantly, the report highlights each student’s percentage course completion, allowing you to quickly see who is making steady progress, who may be falling behind, and who has successfully completed the course. This information is especially helpful for monitoring learning outcomes, providing targeted support, and ensuring students stay on track.
Course Quiz Report
The Quiz Report gives you a focused snapshot of a specific quiz, helping you monitor student performance at a glance.
It lists all the students who are eligible to take the quiz, along with their names and email addresses for easy reference and follow-up.
For each student, the report shows their overall quiz score, allowing you to assess how well they understood the material. It also includes the date they completed the quiz, which helps you track timeliness and identify any delays.
Additionally, the report provides a link to the detailed quiz grading, where you can review each student’s responses, see which questions were answered correctly or incorrectly, and better understand where they may need additional support or clarification.
Student Progress Report
The Progress Report is centered on a single student, giving you a detailed snapshot of that student’s learning journey.
It provides a comprehensive view of their overall progress across all the courses they’re enrolled in, including the percentage of completion for each course.
Beyond just the high-level overview, the report breaks down each course into its individual modules or units, showing the completion status of each one. This allows you to see exactly how far the student has progressed within a course, which modules have been completed, and where they may be stuck or falling behind.
This individualized report is especially useful for tracking student engagement, offering personalized support, and celebrating milestones in their learning path.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who are these courses designed for?
These courses are primarily designed for K-12 teachers, educators, and school administrators who want to build or refresh their financial literacy lessons. However, they’re open to anyone interested in personal finance, including homeschooling parents and education enthusiasts. No prior finance experience is required!
What benefits do teachers get from these courses?
Teachers gain several valuable benefits from these courses:
– Free, Ready-to-Use Lessons: Access a library of high-quality, pre-made lessons for immediate classroom implementation at no cost, saving time on planning and preparation.
– Time Savings: With ready-made resources, teachers spend less time creating materials and more time focusing on teaching.
– Better Student Engagement: The engaging videos and interactive materials make personal finance more interesting and relatable for students.
– Facilitates Classroom Discussions: The content encourages meaningful conversations about money and investing, helping students connect lessons to real-life situations.
– Personal Learning: Teachers can enhance their own financial knowledge alongside their students.
– Standards-Aligned Content: The courses are designed to meet educational standards and state mandates for personal finance education.
Overall, these courses make teaching personal finance easier, more effective, and more enjoyable for both teachers and students.
What topics do these courses cover? What is the format and duration?
The courses cover a wide range of personal finance topics, including budgeting, saving, investing, credit, banking, and financial decision-making. They are designed to align with middle and high school personal finance, business, and economics curricula.
Courses are delivered online through short video lessons and quizzes. Most courses can be completed within 1 hour, spread over several sessions, allowing you to learn at your own pace.
Are these courses really free? What’s the catch?
Yes, the courses are completely free for teachers and their students. There are no hidden fees, subscriptions, or obligations. Our mission is to empower educators with resources to make financial literacy accessible and engaging for students.
Are the courses suitable for different grade levels? How will they benefit my students?
The courses are designed to be engaging for both middle and high school students, with content that is age-appropriate and easy to understand.
Our courses are designed to simplify complex financial concepts, making them more relatable and understandable for students. By using animation and a question-answer format, they help increase student engagement.
How can I use these courses in my classroom? And how much prep time is needed?
You can use the courses as supplementary teaching aids, assign them as homework, or integrate them into your lesson plans. You can monitor the progress of individual students as well as the entire class using the monitoring tools available to you as a teacher (like a Student Progress Report, Group Course Report, etc.)
The courses are 100% ready to use – you can start using the courses immediately! They are designed to be flexible and self-paced to fit into a busy teacher’s schedule. Each course is broken down into multiple lessons (2-3 minutes each), allowing you to integrate them into your lesson planning as needed.
Do I need prior expertise in finance or investing to use these courses?
No prior expertise is required. Our courses are structured to be accessible to teachers with varying levels of financial knowledge. We provide clear explanations to help you confidently teach these subjects.
Can I track my students’ progress?
Yes, you can track the progress of individual students as well as the entire class using the monitoring tools available to you as a teacher (like a Student Progress Report, Group Course Report, etc.)
Are the materials aligned with educational standards?
The courses are created with common personal finance and economics standards in mind, making them a valuable supplement to your existing curriculum. We aim to provide foundational knowledge that can complement various educational frameworks.
Who created these courses, and are they credible?
The courses are developed by Easy Peasy Finance, an award-winning, trusted provider of financial education resources that’s featured in CBS News, Kiplinger Magazine, etc. It is also listed in Jumpstart Clearinghouse.
Do I only get courses, or are any other resources included? Can I create customized lesson plans?
In addition to the free courses, you get access to the AI toolkit for financial literacy teachers. It includes a Custom Lesson Plan and Activity Ideas Generator to instantly create detailed, engaging lesson plans that meet Jumpstart and CEEE national standards and the Financial Literacy Teacher ChatBot, a standards-aligned AI assistant available 24/7 for brainstorming, sparking new ideas, and generating discussion topics, challenging quiz questions, homework prompts, and more.
You will also get a weekly email with helpful teaching resources like slides, infographics, student project ideas, etc. that you can use in the classroom.
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